Author: gbondoni

Though I’m still very excited about yesterday’s news, life goes on.  Fortunately, there’s more good stuff today:  the Autumn’s Harvest anthology has been released.  This one includes my story entitled “Teeth”.  Nice cover, too!

I’ve known for a few days that I’m one of the ten finalists for the 2018 Jim Baen Memorial Award, but had been asked to keep quiet about it until today.

But now it can be told and I’m delighted to announce that… well, what I said above!  The three winners will be posted at some point in March.

As you can imagine, I’m beyond excited, having grown up reading Baen science fiction as a kid.

Anyhow, the best of luck to the other nine finalists (at least one of whom is a friend, maybe more; I haven’t seen the complete list yet).

The nice news I got last week was that the first story I wrote in 2018, after finishing the novel, has been accepted by the editor that requested it (it’s going to a truly interesting antho project). I’ll give more details once contracts are signed and final edits done, but I’m delighted!

First review of Alien Dimensions #9 is (up on Canonnball Read) which includes my story “Wandering Woods”. Seeing that it was my first attempt to write a sentient forest, getting a verdict of “intriguing” works for me.

My story “Summerland” has sold to the fourth volume of the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror antho series. This makes me extremely happy because I now have a story in each volume! Here’s a link to Volume 3 while we wait for V4 to arrive late this year!

The complete results of this year’s N3F contest have been announced – as I mentioned earlier, my story “Qalnoth’s Favor” placed second which is a two-place improvement on last year, in which I was the Honorable Mention.

First: Philip A. Kramer Quantum Quietus
Second: Gustavo Bondoni Qualnoth’s Favor
Third: Robert W. Jennings Trash Smashers
Honorable Mention: Graham J. Darling Immaterial Witness

An interview with me just went up on Jessica A. Scott’s website. Go on and have a look.  This is because the Book Club she organizes has chosen Siege as their novel for this month.  Excited on both counts!

Always nice to see one of my stories chosen to lead off an antho. Even nicer is when that antho is a reprint antho, which means that the stories in there had to be selected not once, but twice to make the grade! Big honor. The antho is called Issues of Tomorrow, edited by Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado Reyes and the story in question is “One Story Short”, originally published in MindFlights some years ago. And I love the cover…

My novel Siege is going to be the next book read by the Indie Eden Book Club. I am delighted, and dying to see what actual live readers who don’t know me, many of whom aren’t typically genre readers will say. This club is open to ny and all, so if you’re interested in reading Siege or have it sitting on the pile, this might be a great chance to do so!

You can have a look here.

Good news is that Bards and Sages Quarterly will be reprinting my story “Schism”. That one is a few years old, and was never widely known, so I’m delighted that people will have a chance to read it, especially because I don’t do many stories that take a serious sf-nal look at religion.  This is one of them.